Garment-supporter



J. MACBOYLE- GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24, 1919.

Patented J an. 13, 1920.

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GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

To all wkom'z't may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES W. MAoBoYLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention is concerned with garment supporters, and more especially with hose supporters, and is designed to produce a fastener for supporters that shall be of the simplest possible construction, and which can be cheaply manufactured, yet which shall have unusual holding power without severely straining the fabric since the pulling thereon is distributed over a large surface, and the fabric is substantially locked in place so it cannot slip out of the fastener.

To these ends, it consists of a certain novel construction which I have illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which the same reference characters designate identical parts in all the figures of which- Figure 1 is a view of the fastener on a large scale;

Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 isv a similar view showing the fastener applied to a stocking;

Fig. 4.- is a perspective view on a smaller scale showing the fastener applied to a garment; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the metal filler for the button.

In carrying out my invention in its preferred form, for each fastener I employ a single strip of fabric a, which is preferably quite flexible and preferably formed of a single thickness of suitable material, such as tape, and at a suitable distance from the end thereof I form a loop 6 therein which is made permanent by the stitches 0 passed through preferably three layers of the fabric, and within this loop I suspend the rigid catch member d, which is preferably constructed of metal of any desired cross section, and has the top narrow loop portion 6, the straight part of which passes through the loop 6, and the body portion 7 diverging therefrom at the top, and converging toward the bottom, so as to form a sort of a keyhole eye in said body. At the lower end of the fabric strip a, I form a pocket, preferably by turning up the end twice, as best seen in Fig. 2, and securing it by the trans- Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jan, 1 3, Application filed. June 24, 1919. Serial No. 30 ,35

.verse stitches g passed through the three 'lay ers of the fabric aS shown, and in this pocket I place the oblong rigid stifiening member h, seen in perspective in Fig. 5, and preferably conslsting of a short metallic bar with all its edges preferably rounded off. This bar somewhat toward the vertical so that it will a pass readily through the eye and then when the metallic catch member i pulled up, the parts assume the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4 and serve to hold the garment securely in place in a manner that will be readily apv parent.

- It will be readily perceived that with my novel structure I have produced a fastener which is of a simple and cheap construction that does not project materially from the body; which presents no metalin contact with the body, and provides a large surface to the button over which the garment is stretched so as to distribute the strain and prevent its wearing the garment prematurely; and likewise one in-which by the turning of the buttonin entering the eye it is practically locked in place and prevents the garment from slipping over it.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. In a garment supporter,the combination with a strip of fabric having a loop formed near one end thereofand a pocket at said end, of a rigid catch member'depending from the loop and having an elongated eye therein, and a plain oblong rigid stiflening member sewed in said pocket so that it forms a fabric-covered button at the end of the supporter which-in use passes completely through the eye of the rigid catch member to cooperate therewith, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a garmeritsupportenthe combination with a strip of fabric having a loop near one end thereof secured by sewin through three thicknesses of the fabric am a pocket at said end formed by a double fold at the end stitched through the three thicknesses, of the fabric at the top and sides of the pocket, of a rigid catch member depending from the loop and having an elongated eye therein with the upper portion 5 nearly the Width of the fabric and narrower at its lower end, and a plain oblong rigid stiffening member slightly shorter thanthe Width of the fabric placed With its length transversely thereof in said pocket so that 10 it forms a fabric-covered button at the end In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set 15 I my hand and aflixed my seal, thi 11th day of June, A. D. 1919.

JAMES W. MACBOYLE. [1,. s.]

Witness:

JOHN HOWARD MCELROY. 

